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A Cautionary Note on Estimating the Standard Error of the Gini Index of Inequality: Comment
Author(s) -
Giles David E. A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0084
pISSN - 0305-9049
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2006.00169.x
Subject(s) - gini coefficient , index (typography) , standard error , inequality , econometrics , statistics , construct (python library) , mathematics , economics , regression , economic inequality , computer science , mathematical analysis , world wide web , programming language
We observe that care must be taken when using a regression‐based approach to construct a standard error for the Gini coefficient.